Nobody turned away from the city. Then stopped. "Wait." He looked back at the System. "Can you track where the original contract was created?"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Searching...
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The loading bar appeared again.
Nobody waited.
A few seconds passed.
Then the result appeared.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Partial Match Found]
Document Origin:
Unknown Corporate Terminal
Location:
Eclipse Corporation
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody’s expression hardened. "So the original file came directly from Eclipse."
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Likely.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"And someone altered the records afterward."
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Possible.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody nodded slowly. "Then that’s where I’ll start." He looked toward the enormous city.
Nathan Industries had lost. Aiden had been arrested. Eclipse had won. But their victory had left something behind. Tiny pieces of trail. Small inconsistencies. Fragments that most people would ignore.
Nobody smiled beneath his breath. "Everyone thinks the story is finished."
He turned toward the edge of the rooftop.
"They’re wrong."
The System displayed one final notification.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[New Objective]
Investigate:
Eclipse Contract Origin
Priority:
???
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody looked at the objective. "Alright." He stepped forward. "Let’s find out what really happened."
....
The rooftop had become strangely quiet. Nobody stood near the edge of the building, looking over the city while the lights of thousands of buildings flickered below. His mind was still occupied with Eclipse.
The suspicious contract. The altered records.
Aiden’s arrest and the strange interference that had prevented the System from retrieving the complete evidence.
Nobody rubbed his chin. "There’s definitely something hidden here."
The System window remained open in front of him.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Investigation Status]
Eclipse Contract Origin:
Partially Identified
Evidence:
Insufficient
External Interference:
Detected
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody stared at the final line. "Insufficient evidence..." He sighed. "I don’t like hearing that."
The System suddenly changed.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Special Information Available]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody blinked. "Special information?"
A second notification appeared.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The user may obtain Live Scene Footage.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody froze. "...What?" He leaned closer. "Wait." His eyes widened. "Live footage?"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Yes.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"Of the scene?"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Yes.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody’s expression immediately brightened. "Really?!"
The System continued.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Explanation]
Current evidence is insufficient for a complete investigative reconstruction.
Even if the user attempts to investigate through conventional detective methods, the available information will remain incomplete.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody’s excitement slowly disappeared. "So basically..." He pointed at the screen. "You’re telling me I can investigate all I want, but there isn’t enough evidence?"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Correct.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody’s shoulders dropped. "Your litrally saying give and take."
For several seconds, the System remained completely silent.
Then a small notification appeared.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
(￣▽￣)
Muah aha ha ha
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody stared. "...Did you just smile?"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[No.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"You definitely smiled."
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[System has no physical mouth.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"That’s not the point!"
Another notification appeared.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Special Challenge Available]
Objective:
Defeat 200 hostile individuals
Reward:
Live Scene Footage
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody stared at the number. Then he slowly looked up toward the night sky. "...Two hundred?"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Yes.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"Two Hundred?!"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Correct.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody pointed accusingly at the System. "I knew it!"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[What did the user know?]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"That you were going to say some crazy shit!!!"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[System considers the challenge reasonable.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody’s face twisted. "Reasonable?!" He paced across the rooftop. "You just told me I need live footage because the evidence is insufficient,and your solution is..." He pointed toward the challenge. "...beat up two hundred people?!"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Correct.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody stopped. "That’s not detective work!"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[It is unrelated to detective work.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"Then why are you making me do it?!"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Reward acquisition.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody stared blankly at the System. "...You know what?" He folded his arms. "I should have expected this."
The System remained silent.
Nobody sighed. Then something suddenly clicked inside his mind. His expression changed. "Wait." He slowly looked at the System. "I still have..." He began counting on his fingers.
"Moonlissa. Then there was..." He paused. "Rian is already safe." "Issebella is safe." His expression became thoughtful. Then the larger picture returned to him.
The System had previously given him dozens of rescue locations. There were still many targets remaining. Nobody’s eyes widened.
"Hold on." He opened the rescue mission list.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Nightly Rescue Progress]
Completed:
15
Remaining:
85
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody stared. Then his expression slowly changed. A grin appeared beneath his helmet. "Wait..." He looked at the challenge again.
Defeat 200 hostile individuals.
Then at the rescue list.
85 remaining targets.
Nobody suddenly laughed. "That’s actually perfect."
The System waited.
Nobody raised a finger. "I already have eighty-five places I need to visit." He raised another finger. "And each place is probably going to have people trying to stop me."
Another finger. "So..." He smiled. "I can combine both missions."
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[System Calculation]
Possible.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody laughed. "See?!" He pointed at the System. "For once, your ridiculous challenge actually makes sense."
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[System disagrees with the characterization.]
(¬⤙¬ )
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"Whatever."
Nobody opened the rescue map from the system window.
Dozens of markers appeared across the city. Some were close. Others were scattered across distant districts. Each represented someone who was still waiting to be found.
Nobody’s smile slowly disappeared. His expression became serious. "Still..." He looked at the markers. "Eighty-five people."
The number felt different when he actually saw it. It wasn’t simply a mission counter anymore. Each marker represented someone. Someone who might be frightened. Someone who might be wondering whether anyone was coming.
Nobody closed his hand. "I’m going."
The System displayed another notification.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Rescue Operation]
Remaining Targets:
85
Priority:
High
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody looked back at the challenge.
Defeat 200 hostile individuals.
He shrugged. "Two hundred?" He stretched his shoulders. "Piece of cake."
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[System recommends not underestimating the challenge.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody laughed. "After everything I’ve dealt with?" He walked toward the edge of the rooftop. "I’ll manage."
The wind moved through the streets below.
Nobody looked toward the first rescue marker. "Besides..." He smiled. "If beating two hundred bad guys gets me the footage I need..." His eyes narrowed. "...then I’ll beat two hundred."
The System appeared beside him.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Combined Objective Created]
Primary Objective:
Rescue Remaining Targets
Secondary Objective:
Defeat 200 Hostile Individuals
Reward:
Live Scene Footage
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody nodded. "Now that’s a mission I understand." He took one final look at the city.
Somewhere out there, people were waiting for help. And somewhere else, Eclipse was probably celebrating its victory.
Mr.Nobody wasn’t going to let either situation continue. He stepped away from the rooftop edge. "Alright." His smile returned. "Eighty-five rescues." He raised his hand. "Two hundred enemies."
Then he pointed toward the glowing map. "And one piece of evidence that could finally expose what Eclipse did."
The System displayed one final message.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Mission Accepted]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody grinned.
"Let’s get started."
..........
Nobody stood on the rooftop for another few seconds,staring at the enormous map floating in front of him.
Eighty-five markers covered the city. Some were clustered close together. Others were scattered across distant districts. A few were blinking more rapidly than the others.
Nobody pointed at them.
"System, what do the blinking markers mean?"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Explanation]
Blinking markers indicate elevated danger levels.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody’s smile disappeared. "How many?"
The System highlighted several locations.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
High-Risk Targets
17
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody stared at the number. "Seventeen."
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Correct.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"And the rest?"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Moderate Risk:
43
Low Risk:
25
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody nodded slowly. "So seventeen people could be in serious danger right now."
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Correct.]
He looked at the nearest marker. "Then we start there."
The map immediately zoomed in.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Priority Target]
Target:
Unknown
Distance:
6.4 Kilometers
Danger:
High
Estimated Time Remaining:
3 Hours 42 Minutes
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody frowned. "Three hours?"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Estimated.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"That’s not exactly comfortable."
He looked toward the streets below.
The city was still busy despite the late hour. Cars passed through intersections. Restaurants remained open. People walked along the sidewalks.
Nobody knew that somewhere among all these buildings, someone was waiting for help. Nobody turned toward the rooftop exit. "Let’s go." He descended the stairs quickly.
By the time he reached the lower floor, his phone vibrated.
Nobody checked it.
A message had arrived from an unknown number.
Unknown:
You should stop digging into Eclipse.
Nobody stopped walking. "...That’s interesting."
Another message arrived.
Some things are better left alone.
Nobody stared at the screen.
Then he smiled. "So they noticed."
The System appeared.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Warning]
External party has become aware of user’s investigation.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody continued walking. "Can you trace the number?"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Attempting.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
A few seconds passed.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Result]
Unable to identify.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody shrugged. "Expected Sure it’s Eclipse people"
Another message arrived.
This is your final warning! Don’t ruin my world plots.
Nobody stopped at the building entrance. He looked at the message again. Then shockingly deleted it. "Damn fk! So it was the higher being!!"
He stepped outside. The night air was cool. Nobody looked toward the first rescue marker. "But it’s too late. Someone needs my help." He started walking. "That’s more important."
The System suddenly appeared again.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Reminder]
Secondary Objective:
Defeat 200 hostile individuals.
Current Progress:
0/200
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody stared. "...You really don’t want me to forget that, do you?"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Correct.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"Fine." He rolled his shoulders. "But I’m not going around looking for random people to fight."
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Not recommended.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"Good." Nobody smiled. "They’ll come to me."
The System remained silent.
Nobody continued toward the nearest marker.
A few streets later, he entered a quieter part of the city. The tall buildings gradually became smaller. The streets narrowed. Streetlights stood farther apart.
The System map guided him toward an old industrial district.
Nobody slowed down. "Looks abandoned."
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[Confirmed.]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"That’s usually where things get suspicious."
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